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Eurovision on Sunday morning. Best fun ever going around to a friend's house (5 mins drive at 5am, apparently there was broken bottle glass on the driveway thanks to drunk teenagers we heard rousting on Saturday night and, honestly, we have a cop who lives two doors down. Unless it was his daughter.)
But. Eurovision was completely hilariously awesome, from Belgium's disco opening "What's the Pressure?", down to "Love Love Peace Peace" which is the most meta-y delightful thing ever. My sister howled with laughter watching it, and we're not even Eurovision die-hards!
Some hockey - the team I coach played really well on Sunday night but drew 2-2 in the end. The other team were fielding 17 players and they're only allowed 16. We called them on it and were told "the Organiser of the competition said we could so long as nobody complained about it" Well, we were complaining. We notified the umpires, wrote the objection on our scorecards, wrote it on the opposing team's scorecards, and I took a photo of the scorecard for good measure.
And this is something that his club does regularly. As in, every time we play they have nearly half a dozen subs which gives them an advantage when it comes to staying power and energy.
In future, all our teams will ask to see this particular club's sign-on sheet, to check that they're not adding too many players. (As it is, five subs is too many; three is a good number, four gets a little unwieldy.)
Ironically, the woman on our team who complains the loudest about unfairness? Is also the one who advocates pulling B-grade players down to sub in for the D-grade team. For those of you familiar with my hockey shenanigans, it's the FormerPres of the club.
It's a good team, for the most part - we have a couple of new players, one of whom is 'new' in that her mother and sister play in the B-grade team, but she's the youngest of the kids and only just 13. But, holy cow, is she a CRACKER of a player! Hopefully we get to keep her for a couple of years before she goes up - I can see C-grade trying to steal her ASAP, because she's really really good. But the team is coming together as a team, learning how to play together, how to pass and pick up, how to look. I like to think that a little bit of it is because of my coaching and encouragement, but there are a lot of people in the club, and two other coaches who take training a lot more often than I do!
--
Today, I had to disappoint someone - tell them I wasn't going in with them on something big. I angsted about it for most of the weekend - lots and lots and lots of angst. It was nerve wracking, but they ended up being good about it. Thankfully. Because the other thing that's a problem right now is my health which is stressful enough.
I'm on antibiotics for the tooth extraction on Wednesday. Gums have been swollen and a little achey for the last couple of weeks, but it's getting bad - scrunching up my scalp and neck as the muscles tense and refuse to loosen. And the right hand and right foot aching/tingling/swelling has gotten worse, even on a salicylate-lite diet. Of course, I have been pushing them a little harder of late, even to playing in a 15 minute game last Tuesday night at hockey training. It was fun; I'd forgotten how much I missed playing.
The extraction is making me nervous: with all the negative things that could happen running through my head. I have the secret fear that I'm a Speshul Case and that the things they don't expect to go wrong totally will (even though, up until the last year, they haven't). It doesn't help that they're going to do a replacement implant at the same time so I don't have to go under twice - assuming there's enough bone to get the implant in and no problems and they can clear out the infection and...
Ugh.
I would have preferred the operation done under a general, but that would require waiting until June which, no. NOW, thank you.
So, Wednesday midday. I took the rest of the week off with sick leave so I'd get some recovery time. I'm desperately hoping everything goes well, and that the tooth is causing the gum infection so removing it works. Because I think the gum infection is causing pain in the neck and skull, which is tightening my neck muscles, which is squishing my nerves down the RHS of the body...
Which means that I might someday not feel like my right hand and foot are going to be permanently swollen (instead of just the last six months).
Finally, the Maria Hill Comment Fest is up and going! If you have any love for Maria (in any universe, any incarnation) then please come along, prompt, and fill! (I'm going to need something to keep my mind off the pain after Wednesday.)
But. Eurovision was completely hilariously awesome, from Belgium's disco opening "What's the Pressure?", down to "Love Love Peace Peace" which is the most meta-y delightful thing ever. My sister howled with laughter watching it, and we're not even Eurovision die-hards!
Some hockey - the team I coach played really well on Sunday night but drew 2-2 in the end. The other team were fielding 17 players and they're only allowed 16. We called them on it and were told "the Organiser of the competition said we could so long as nobody complained about it" Well, we were complaining. We notified the umpires, wrote the objection on our scorecards, wrote it on the opposing team's scorecards, and I took a photo of the scorecard for good measure.
And this is something that his club does regularly. As in, every time we play they have nearly half a dozen subs which gives them an advantage when it comes to staying power and energy.
In future, all our teams will ask to see this particular club's sign-on sheet, to check that they're not adding too many players. (As it is, five subs is too many; three is a good number, four gets a little unwieldy.)
Ironically, the woman on our team who complains the loudest about unfairness? Is also the one who advocates pulling B-grade players down to sub in for the D-grade team. For those of you familiar with my hockey shenanigans, it's the FormerPres of the club.
It's a good team, for the most part - we have a couple of new players, one of whom is 'new' in that her mother and sister play in the B-grade team, but she's the youngest of the kids and only just 13. But, holy cow, is she a CRACKER of a player! Hopefully we get to keep her for a couple of years before she goes up - I can see C-grade trying to steal her ASAP, because she's really really good. But the team is coming together as a team, learning how to play together, how to pass and pick up, how to look. I like to think that a little bit of it is because of my coaching and encouragement, but there are a lot of people in the club, and two other coaches who take training a lot more often than I do!
--
Today, I had to disappoint someone - tell them I wasn't going in with them on something big. I angsted about it for most of the weekend - lots and lots and lots of angst. It was nerve wracking, but they ended up being good about it. Thankfully. Because the other thing that's a problem right now is my health which is stressful enough.
I'm on antibiotics for the tooth extraction on Wednesday. Gums have been swollen and a little achey for the last couple of weeks, but it's getting bad - scrunching up my scalp and neck as the muscles tense and refuse to loosen. And the right hand and right foot aching/tingling/swelling has gotten worse, even on a salicylate-lite diet. Of course, I have been pushing them a little harder of late, even to playing in a 15 minute game last Tuesday night at hockey training. It was fun; I'd forgotten how much I missed playing.
The extraction is making me nervous: with all the negative things that could happen running through my head. I have the secret fear that I'm a Speshul Case and that the things they don't expect to go wrong totally will (even though, up until the last year, they haven't). It doesn't help that they're going to do a replacement implant at the same time so I don't have to go under twice - assuming there's enough bone to get the implant in and no problems and they can clear out the infection and...
Ugh.
I would have preferred the operation done under a general, but that would require waiting until June which, no. NOW, thank you.
So, Wednesday midday. I took the rest of the week off with sick leave so I'd get some recovery time. I'm desperately hoping everything goes well, and that the tooth is causing the gum infection so removing it works. Because I think the gum infection is causing pain in the neck and skull, which is tightening my neck muscles, which is squishing my nerves down the RHS of the body...
Which means that I might someday not feel like my right hand and foot are going to be permanently swollen (instead of just the last six months).
Finally, the Maria Hill Comment Fest is up and going! If you have any love for Maria (in any universe, any incarnation) then please come along, prompt, and fill! (I'm going to need something to keep my mind off the pain after Wednesday.)
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